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July 16
Births

* 1486 - Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (d. 1530)
* 1796 - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (d. 1875)
* 1821 - Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader (d. 1910)
* 1834 - Franz Adolf Lüderitz, salesman and politician (d. 1886)
* 1862 - Ida B. Wells, American journalist and anti-lynching crusader (d. 1931)
* 1872 - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (d. 1928)
* 1888 - Percy Kilbride, American actor (d. 1964)
* 1888 - Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
* 1889 - Joe Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1951)
* 1889 - Larry Semon, film comedian (d. 1928)
* 1896 - Trygve Lie, first United Nations Secretary General (d. 1968)
* 1902 - Georg Schwarz, writer (d. 1991)
* 1903 - Carmen Lombardo, Canadian singer, saxophonist, composer, and arranger (d. 1971)
* 1907 - Dr. Frances Horwich, American television personality (d. 2001)
* 1907 - Orville Redenbacher, American farmer and businessman (d. 1995)
* 1907 - Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990)
* 1911 - Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (d. 1995)
* 1913 - Peter van Eyck, actor (d. 1969)
* 1919 - Choi Kyuha, President of South Korea
* 1924 - Bess Myerson, Miss America and television personality
* 1925 - Cal Tjader, musician (d. 1982)
* 1926 - Irwin Rose, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
* 1946 - Ron Yary, American football player
* 1947 - Assata Shakur, Black Panther Party member
* 1948 - Rubén Blades, Panamanian actor, musician, and politician
* 1948 - Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist
* 1952 - Stewart Copeland, American musician
* 1956 - Tony Kushner, American playwright
* 1959 - Gary Anderson, American football player
* 1963 - Phoebe Cates, American actress
* 1963 - Fatboy Slim, English musician
* 1963 - Srečko Katanec, Slovenian footballer and coach
* 1964 - Phil Hellmuth, American poker player
* 1964 - Miguel Induráin, Spanish cyclist
* 1968 - Barry Sanders, American football player
* 1971 - Corey Feldman, American actor
* 1976 - Anna Smashnova, Israeli tennis player

Deaths

* 1647 - Masaniello, Italian rebel (b. 1622)
* 1691 - François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (b. 1641)
* 1770 - Francis Cotes, English painter (b. 1726)
* 1882 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)
* 1953 - Hilaire Belloc, French writer and journalist (b. 1870)
* 1979 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b. 1912)
* 1981 - Harry Chapin, American singer and songwriter (b. 1942)
* 1985 - Heinrich Böll, German writer (b. 1917)
* 1989 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (b. 1908)
* 1991 - Frank Rizzo, mayor of Philadelphia (b. 1920)
* 1994 - Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
* 1995 - Stephen Spender, American poet (b. 1909)
* 1998 - John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (b. 1915)
* 1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr., son of John F. Kennedy (b. 1960)
* 2002 - John Cocke, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
* 2003 - Celia Cruz, Cuban musician (b. 1924)
* 2003 - Carol Shields, Canadian author (b. 1935)